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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

You would think after spending 400 on a dash kit he would have come up with a better solution for his prindle.

"Oh lets just chop a hole to the left and put it in"

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

They don't have one but Dakota Digital makes a couple. I don't like either one might have to search a little more. If none exist I'll send a request to Buggman labs.

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

About a $180 investment no wonder the poor guy took a dremel to his plastic LOL.

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

They look good but I already have the gauges, speed-o 4.5", two 2 5/8" gauges, oil and water temp, And four 2 1/16" gauges, just need to make the mounting plate... then figure out the wiring !
The Speed-O and the two 2 5/8" gauges will be in the Gauge Cluster, the other 2 1/16" gauges will be on the A pillar and if on the top of the dash.

If the individual gauges & sending units (or whatever they'd need to get info from the vehicle) were available, it might not be too hard to create a custom dash for them.
Someone might even be smart enough (not me) to use some arduino type mini computer to feed the signal to some small digital displays.

This seemed to be the best place to put this, been chatting with sales and tech support on and off since the thread started... they have developed a PRNDL gauge and it debuted at CES this year, it is not available yet.

Shawn sent me a pic he had on his phone from the show:

Thia is a vid of the 2 gauges I just bought from them (for diagnostics)

I'm going to leave them in all winter and if they still work well come summer time I will call them a success and see if F-R can be a dealer for their products. Unless James beats me to it LOL.

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.

Why not just use an android tablet or Ipad as your new instrument cluster? Use your favorite app and make up your own digital dash

Need indicators for brake, battery, 4hi, 4low, OD off, and high beams at the least

I like the digital stuff, it just seems as soon as you install it these displays are going to be obsolete as you can do so much with digtal dashboard apps these days
I mean this stuff looks like a digital setup from a 1992 Camaro or something, it just seems dated with all the green numbers and no graphics

It's the shape. I have a few old samsung 10" tabs around and the app looks great on those, GPS speedo, reads bluetooth.. doesn't fit in stock location on a ranger too big. Smaller ones leave gaps left and right.

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Modern technology has us all connected like the Borg on Star Trek. The Smart phone is a device used to keep us plugged into the coveted collective.